Nathan Kornmehl, 97, owned kosher meat market

Nathan Kornmehl, former owner of Kornmehl’s Kosher Meat Market, died Thursday. He was 97.

Mr. Kornmehl was born in Cologne, Germany, and moved to Buffalo in 1947.

He came to the United States after fleeing Nazi Germany and surviving a harrowing experience in Siberia. Later, at his mother’s urging, he followed a sister to the United States. His mother and one of his sisters died in a concentration camp.